Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?" "Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.

The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.

Of course it does not apply to me. I am the soul of honor, kindness, mercy and goodness. Trust me in all things.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.